New System management and monitoring with ZABBIX

Zabbix is open source system and network monitoring software that lets you monitor your IT infrastructure, including servers, network devices, databases and services. The application has comprehensive reports, graphs and alerts to help you identify and resolve problems before they have a negative impact on users and business processes.
This course will show you how to

• install the server
• Monitor devices (windows, linux, network devices)
• manage users
• set permissions
• manage LDAP authentication
• add templates to work faster and more conveniently
• monitor custom services
• manage notifications, escalations

For system administrators who do not yet, or do not yet fully understand how Zabbix works. Even though we are starting from the basics, those with experience will find something new or a topic to improve their knowledge.

1. general information

• About Zabbix
• Licensing
• Lifecycle
• Operational models
• Structure, layers

2. Telelation

• Database preparation
• Download from
• Deploy
• Performing basic configuration

3. Adding hosts

• Measuring Linux hosts
• Measure Windows hosts
• How SNMP works
• Adding a network device
• Reviewing and managing custom measurements
• Managing alarms

4. Managing users

• Managing and adding local and LDAP users
• Authorization assignment

5. Using templates

• How templates work
• Building on each other

6. Custom measurements (measurements not supported by Zabbix by default)

• Creating a custom measurement
• Stacked (calculated) measurements
• Use of labels
• Graph generation

7. Notification management

• SMTP server setup
• Notification templates
• Filtering and delaying alerts
• Escalation
• Managing acknowledgements

8. Using proxies

• Setting up
• Operational models
• Deploying
• Using

Basic computer and information technology skills, basic networking skills. Linux command line basics. Some source material may be in English, so a working knowledge of English at document reading level is recommended.